Cases
Representative Work: Commercial Real Estate Structuring legal arrangements: Structuring legal arrangements for a variety of clients, including corporations, partnerships, limited partnerships
joint ventures, including preparation
negotiation of shareholder's agreements, partnership
joint venture agreements. Recently provided advice on
implementation of tax saving structures for institutions involving real estate.
Asset Acquisition: Structuring, negotiating
preparing various types of agreements
documentation respecting asset purchases
sales including office buildings, warehouses, manufacturing, industrial
institutional sites. Specific negotiations
addressing issues respecting contaminated l
brownfield developments.
Financing: Structuring, negotiating
preparing financing agreements
associated agreements
loan documentation
security involving real estate such as office, warehouse, industrial, multi residential
institutional. Extensive experience in construction loans
mortgages of leasehold interests.
Disposition: Structuring, negotiating
completing sale transactions including sale/lease back transactions for major Canadian companies such as Brookfield, Oxford Properties, Bell Canada
Zurich Insurance.
Variety of Developments: Advising on office
industrial developments
not-for-profit housing developments
mixed use
multi use projects, including public private partnerships.
Mixed Use Developments: Involved in structuring
negotiating shared facilities
access agreements in mixed use developments. Mixed use developments contain a variety of uses each owned by different owners. However the building structure
systems like HVAC are interdependent. There are also legal issues as to access for repairs
liability for lack of repairs.
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Development: Advising on l
development, including acquisitions, development agreements, construction agreements, financing
reciprocal agreements.
Section 37 Agreements: Negotiation with the City of Toronto.
Environmental Compliance: Advising regarding legal aspects of the acquisition, disposition
compliance respecting contaminated l
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brownfield sites.
Title: Providing opinions on title
negotiation of commercial title insurance to solve title issues.
Institutional Clients: Institutional owners such as CBC/Radio-Canada, Waterfront Toronto, HollyFrontier Corporation, OCAD University, The Hospital for Sick Children, Southlake Regional Health Centre, Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences, Humber Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning, Sheridan College Institute of Technology
Advanced Learning, Medecins Sans Frontieres Canada/Doctors Without Borders, several lending institutions including Bank of Montreal, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, Royal Bank of Canada
HSBC Bank Canada including 200 million construction loans for CityPlace, Toronto.
Public
Private Entity clients: Public
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owners such as Brookfield, Oxford Properties, Loblaw Properties Limited, AGF Management Limited, Medecins Sans Frontieres Canada/Doctors Without Borders, Parrish & Heimbecker Limited, Atlas Copco Canada Inc., Arkema Canada Inc., Professional Engineers Ontario, Air Products Inc., Shell Canada (pipelines), Imperial Life Assurance Company of Canada, Guaranty Company of North America (head office lease)
Canada Post (head office lease).
Leasing
Licensing Leasing: Preparing
negotiating leases on behalf of l
lords, tenants, ground l
lords, ground tenants, sale/leasebacks, subleases, licenses
air space licenses
Ground Leases: Preparing
negotiating ground leases
construction agreements with the Province of Ontario for a hospital
with the City of Toronto on behalf of a private corporation for a mixed-use re-development
for a developer in a ground lease
lease back for Canada Post's head office
for Humber Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning.
Transactions Involving Ground Leases: Acting on behalf of tenants of ground leases, purchasers of ground lease interests, lenders on ground leases
subtenants under ground leases.
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lords: Developing
negotiating st
ard form offers to lease
leases for office
retail sites on behalf of l
lords
negotiating offers to lease
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lords.
Tenants: Developing st
ard offers to lease for tenants, work with corporate non-legal staff respecting leasing matters, negotiating
drafting offers to lease
leases on behalf of tenants for office, retail
industrial sites.
Lease Defaults: Advising on
negotiating solutions resulting from lease defaults by l
lords
by tenants.
Air Space Licences: Negotiating
preparing air space licences.
Communications Leases: Negotiating communications tower leases.
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s Licences: Negotiating interests in l
s with Native Canadians including pipelines for Shell Canada
Air Products Inc.
Institutional Clients: Negotiating leases
licences for various corporations including, Canada Post head office in Ottawa, The Hospital for Sick Children, The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation, Southlake Regional Health Centre, Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences, St. Joseph Health Centre (Toronto), William Osler Health System, OCAD University, Humber College Institute of Technology
Advanced Learning, Sheridan Institute of Technology
Advanced Learning
Colleges Ontario.
Public
Private Clients: AGF Management Limited, GayLea Foods, Value Village Canada, Manheim Auto Auctions, Cox Industries, Movenpick/Richtree Restaurants in BCE Place, Toronto, Rideau Centre, Ottawa, York Mills
several other locations in the USA, Oxford Properties Group, Professional Engineers Ontario, Air Products Inc., Shell Canada, Revios Reinsurance Canada Ltd., Imperial Life Assurance Company of Canada
Guarantee Company of North America head office lease.
